So this is pretty much what we do all of the time... lol, just kidding. We just hate taking pictures of ourselves, so they're nothing special. We're both going on diets though... so maybe in a couple months we'll put some nice pictures on. Sorry

Okay, so this is (from the left) my little sister Megan, my cousin Athena, and Oj's little brother Briggs. The thing in Athena's hands is what they are using in the other pictures. I think it's called a rip stick, and it's sort of like a skate board... but it only has two wheels and you can pivot it to turn and stuff. I really don't know much about it. So these are pictures of the kids actually using it. Athena and Briggs are just learning how to use it, but Megan's a pro rip sticker.

This is a bird house that Oj got me. I learned a cool trick though.... if you don't put bird seed in it the birds don't poop on it. :)



















This is my sad little garden. They are supposed to be blackeyed susans... maybe next year. But if you look around the edges you may be able to tell that there was a nasty little gofer running around in there.

I know that we haven't really posted anything for a while... so here's what's been happening!

Oj finished his summer semester of school yesterday, so he finally gets to take a break, although it is only a couple weeks long. Even though he could have slept in this morning, he woke up promptly at 6:30am (I think, but I was sleeping... so who really knows). It was somewhat strange leaving the house and him still being home. I think while Oj is out of school we will go fourwheeling because he LOVES to do that... especially when his brothers can go.

Anyhow... last week my mom, grandma, little sis - megan, and cousin - athena came out to Nebraska to visit me. The real reason they came is because my grandma had a high school reunion in Lincoln, NE, but they couldn't resist spending the week at my house. It was really nice to have them here and to have the week off from work. We did a lot of things while they were here... we went to the Henry-Doorly Zoo that is near our house, we went to a water park our in Fremont with Debbie, Briggs, and Dawn, and my mom and grandma helped me a lot in our upstairs bathroom (it needed a lot of T.L.C.). I really appreciate their help, especially because I know Oj doesn't really like doing that stuff. I promise when our house is done I will post before and after pictures... you'll be impressed.

My plants that I planted in my flower gardens aren't doing so well. I think that they just have a hard time because we moved them from Sue's yard to ours, and they have to transition. I don't know for sure, i don't really have a green thumb. They are perennials (I think that's what they're called when they come back year after year, right?) so hopefully next year they will come up like they're supposed to. My mom also bought me some bulbs and seeds that the girls and I planted that will hopefully come up this summer, but they'll come up next year for sure. I sure hope they do, because I want to have a pretty flower garden.

So... that's about all we're up to. I will be taking a Biology class starting Sept. 02. I'm excited to take it, but it goes from 6-10pm, so that will make for pretty long days! I'm going to post a couple of random pictures also